#Plants - Algae shared traits
#Land Plant Traits
#Plant Phylogeny
#Plants - Algae shared traits
#Land Plant Traits
#Plant Phylogeny
Many Protists share traits with plants
Dinoflagellates
Brown Algae
Diatoms
Not ancestral to plants!
Secondary endosymbiosis
for chloroplasts
Many shared gene families with plants, now that we have the chara genome
What are the pros and cons of living on land?
Fancy botany word for plants = embryophytes (embryo retained on gametophyte)
Fancy botany term for the sperm and egg ‘houses’
Chlorophyll a/b are specialized to absorb the intense direct solar radiation at specific wavelengths
Can you draw me yet?
Homospory - one type of spore, that germinates into a bisexual gametophyte
Early plants, like moss, have sperm that swim from antheridia to archegonia